Hi, you've got a good memory! When I bought my Pentax ringflash in 1999 I think I compared prices at various places and found that it was cheaper for me to get it from I think Ravensburger Fotoversand in Germany. It was at least �150- cheaper than in the UK. The actual price was slightly cheaper in the US than in Germany, but shipping, VAT and duty pushed the figure above the German price. I didn't do a general survey in any way, and for some photographic equipment the prices in Germany and the UK are the same.
For buying film you might try www.7dayshop.com, which is very good compared to UK prices because of some loophole whereby they don't pay VAT in the Channel Islands, which is the bricks & mortar location of the company. I don't think it's possible to say 'xxx is cheaper for Pentax'. It seems to vary with the particular thing you want and when you want it. In the UK of course we're pretending that there's no such thing as the Euro; as usual the rest of Europe is out of step with us <g>. When we switched from groats to decimal currency in the early 1970s prices went up because people were too confused to realise. The same thing may well happen in Euroland. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wednesday, December 19, 2001, 9:49:53 AM, you wrote: > Less than 2 weeks to the official launch of the Euro - should simplify price > comparisons and bargain hunting across Europe. Can anyone recommend reliable > mail order houses within Europe. I remember some discussion quite awhile ago > about some place in Germany (I think that Bob Walkden did some comparisons > with UK prices???) Who offers the best Pentax and fikm prices - are there > savings to be had in buying larger quantities of Velvia by mail order? > regards, Pat - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
